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. 2022 Jan;57(1):325-329.
doi: 10.1002/ppul.25738. Epub 2021 Oct 28.

Case study: Cinnamon aspiration in a toddler causing severe ARDS requiring surfactant and extracorporeal membrane oxygenation

Gene Hwan Peir  1 , Kaitlyn Maureen Boggs  2 , Pelayia H Soto  3 , Jered Weinstock  4 , Matthew P Sharron  1 , Iman Sami  4 , Terry Dean  1
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Case study: Cinnamon aspiration in a toddler causing severe ARDS requiring surfactant and extracorporeal membrane oxygenation

Gene Hwan Peir et al. Pediatr Pulmonol. 2022 Jan.

Abstract

As many as 6% of reported cinnamon poisonings cause significant clinical effects, however, descriptions of pulmonary toxicity have not yet been reported. Here, we present a pediatric patient's hospital course following powdered cinnamon aspiration. The early presentation with hypercapnia and lower airways obstruction evolved to hypoxemic respiratory failure and severe pediatric acute respiratory distress syndrome requiring a 7-day course of veno-venous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, 16 ventilator-days, and three diagnostic and therapeutic bronchoscopies with two applications of surfactant therapy. The sum of these modalities contributed to this patient's survival and subsequent return to respiratory baseline 6 months post-hospitalization.

Keywords: ARDS; ECMO; aspiration; cinnamon; surfactant.

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